Category: BlahBlahBabble

In March, shortly after we closed on the house, we went to buy new appliances. Washer, Dryer and Refrigerator. Picking out what we wanted wasn’t hard (everyone’s feedback here helped a lot!), but getting it all in to place has been rather interesting.

First delivery was just the washer & the fridge. The gas dryer was on backorder, so they set up a second delivery for free. The delivery guys bring in the fridge, have me sign that it’s ok, and leave. They didn’t peel off the protective coating, and like a goober – I signed. Oops. Of course, I peel it off, and there is a scratch. Relatively minor, but this is my new fridge. We go back to see the salesman at the store and he offers 10% off or a new fridge. We were going to go for the money, but I realized that scratch would bug me every time I saw it – and I’m the type of person that notices stuff like that all the time. It was a good thing that we picked getting a new fridge though, because it turns out that fridge #1 wasn’t working correctly anyways.

Next delivery was the dryer. No problems at all there – they hooked it up fast, it works well.

Next attempted delivery was for fridge #2. Unfortunately, they discovered that they couldn’t turn off the water for fridge #1. The bearings in the valve were shot, the water wouldn’t go off, and unfortunately the valve was welded on to the pipe. The plumber from a company of plumbing in las vegas came out and replaced it – and made some other quick fixes too while he was here – for a quick $200, it is incredible to see how important it is to have plumbing
on handy. *sigh*

Last Friday, they brought out fridge #3. They were able to turn off the water, unhook the fridge, and then it all fell apart. They brought in fridge #3, moved it over by the desk in the kitchen, and then went to move out fridge #1. In the process, they put a big scratch in fridge #3. Great. Oh well, the door on fridge #1 is fine, we’ll just switch out the door. That would be the perfect plan – if it wasn’t for the fact that while he was trying to move out fridge #1 without scratching #3, he dented the door as he went past the island in the kitchen. Oops. The poor guy, I thought he was going to cry.

Today was our lucky day. The same guys from last week showed up and went right to work. Instead of moving around whole fridges, they took the doors off of fridge #3.5. (It’s not really fridge #4 if we just used the doors, is it?) Then they took the doors off of fridge #3. They swapped the doors and hooked up the water. Finally, after weeks of dealing with this, we have a fridge that is scratch free! At last! At last! w00t!

I’m giddy and excited, but at the same time – I feel a little lost. I’ve grown used to my service men coming to visit me all the time. All that is left is the delivery of new furniture this afternoon, and one more trip for the cable company. Then what will I do with my time? If you want to save from plumbing service, please checkout the link.

With every wedding invitation envelope that I lick, I can’t help but think of the toxic envelope glue that killed Susan on Seinfeld. My only comfort is knowing that we didn’t buy these invitations from the back of the book, they weren’t discontinued, and they probably aren’t toxic. I hope.

But if I die, you will all know that it was the glue from the invitations. *hack, cough, hack*

It always freaks me out when I hear about something very random two times or more in the same day. How does that happen? It’s just freaky. It happened to me not once or twice, but three times yesterday! That is just very, very strange.

Natalie and I went to see Jersey Girl yesterday. The Kevin Smith factor got us there, but it was different than his usual style. It was cute, it made me laugh, it made me get misty-eyed at least two times (yeah, not your typical Kevin Smith movie at all…), and it was just generally good. Matt Damon and Jason Lee made their required appearances – er, in the movie, not in the theater itself. Yeah, I wish. Anyways, it was a nice break in an otherwise very busy day, worth the matinee ticket price.

During the movie, the topic of the movie “Dirty Dancing” came up. Ben’s character quotes a line from the film to Gertie, saying “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” in his best Patrick Swayze voice.

Later in the day, I was at my parent’s house, and my Mom commented on how there are numerous planets lined up in the sky and visible to the naked eye right now. I got back in my car and Kymberlie called to let me know that she was on her way over to the house. In the conversation, she asks me if I knew that there are all these planets that are visible right now. What?!? I am amused, as I had just been talking about that three minutes earlier.

Kymberlie and I head over to Wal-Mart, and brought home the Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture game. While we played the game, guess what question comes up in the movie category? Not just a reference to Dirty Dancing. Oh no. That would just be amusing. There is actually a question in the game that asks what film has the line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” What?!? How random is that?!?

I immediately commented on the fact that that line was in “Jersey Girl” and it was therefore freaky-weird.

Later in the game, a question comes up about “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and the song that Cameron Diaz sings at the karaoke bar. Just to distract Kymberlie, and hopefully have a shot at winning the game, I ask her what the name of the song is from the “Lobster scene” in the movie – the one where everyone is sitting in the restaurant singing along. You know, “Each morning I wake up … I *mutter something mutter* makeup …” Bam! It comes to me. “I say a little prayer for you…” Whew! That has been bugging me for days. I thought I was going to have to rent the movie just to remember the song!

After Kymberlie left for home, I couldn’t sleep (what a surprise!) so I decided to read a few blogs. I could not stop laughing when I came across Natalie’s post asking for the name to the exact same song!

Three times in one day. Damn. That’s just weird. Is it just me, or does this happen to everyone? Quite the prelude to April Fool’s Day.

My life seems to revolve around appointments for service calls lately. The cable guy, the delivery of the fridge & the washing machine, the dryer delivery (they were backordered), the cable guy (who no-showed), the cable guy (who arrived between 2-4 as scheduled. Yeah!), and the delivery of a new fridge.

Yes, a new fridge. The first one had some relatively minor scratches on the front, but I knew they would bug me every time I looked at the fridge. Originally, they offered us a refund or a new fridge. We considered the refund, but then I realized just how much it would bug me, and the delivery of the new fridge was set up. We discovered later that the one we currently have has a tendency to turn off the fridge side every once in awhile – you will open up the door and the light won’t come on and you can tell it’s not running – so it seems we made the best decision after all.

Last night was yet another night of being wide awake way too late. Weeks on end now – I just can’t take it any more. I finally fell asleep somewhere around 4 am. At 8:30 am, the Best Buy delivery guys called to say they would be here in about 20 minutes. I was, of course, sound asleep. I ran around, got dressed, and emptied out the entire refrigerator, just in time for their arrival.

The delivery guy moved the current fridge away from the wall. He turned off the water line for the icemaker. He started to unscrew the water … and it started to spray everywhere. The water valve won’t turn off. Gah! I brought him towels, and he tried one more time – just in case he didn’t get it turned all the way off. No go. It still started to spray.

So the old fridge is still here, and now I have to wait for yet another service call from Vito Services – a local plumber to put in a new valve! Then they will bring me back a new fridge. Really, does the fun ever end?

Last week I had to call information to get the phone number for the Newman Center where I was baptized at NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota. Now, I realize that Fargo is not a huge tourist attraction or anything like that. But the operator that I got had no clue at all.

Her: “What city please?”
Me: “Hi! Fargo, North Dakota. I need the number for the Newman Center at North Dakota State University.”
Her: “What city?”
Me: “Fargo, North Dakota.”
Her: “What city? (With an increasingly confused tone to her voice.)”
Me: “FAR-go. Fargo. F-a-r-g-o. North Dakota.”

She never had a clue what I was saying. She gave me the number for a Newman Center in some other state. Great, real help there. Fargo. There was even a movie named “Fargo,” so how hard can it be?